Research On Educational Aspirations And School Choice Of Migrant Grow-ups' Parents In Beijing

With the scale of the floating population continues to expand, migrant children's education problem is becoming considered. As the special status of parents in the family, parents who are directly responsible for their children's education will flow attitude and behaviour of children in all aspects of a far-reaching impact. Parents on the education of children attitudes and behaviour are directly reflected in the educational aspirations and School Choice , but more studies only have a simple description on the educational aspirations and educational choices of parents, and do not take into account the relation between the educational aspirations and educational choices. The studies also do not control other variables in perspective to analyze the factors of them.Data for analysis came from 2,083 children and 1,735 parents who participate in the 2006 survey in Beijing. the Crossable table and Logistic regression are used to analyze the data. The results of the analysis showed that, although parents have higher aspirations for their children's education, different parents have different aspirations for their children's education because of the different school their children study in. In addition, the mother's level of education, family economic situation as well as the future direction of children have a significant impact on behavior on educational aspirations and School Choice. If parents have the higher education aspirations, they would like their children study in public school more.